Parsing engine for BIND 8 zone files

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> In article <3929A162.D0D2B3C9 at securecomputing.com>,
> Drew Johnson  <djohnson at securecomputing.com> wrote:
> >Good afternoon-
> >
> >	I am currently sorting through the source code for BIND for the parsing
> >engine that reads the zone files into understandable data on behalf of
> >BIND (I am currently writing some parsing algorithms for the files, and
> >I would prefer to not reinvent the wheel.  Might anyone have an idea in
> >which particular area of the voluminous BIND code this portion resides?
> 
> ns_parser.y, which is YACC source.

	ns_parser.y is for named.conf.
	db_load.c is for master files.

	You may also want to look at BIND 9.

	Mark
--
Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at nominum.com